Paul Gauguin
1848  1903

Landscape

Oil on canvas
50.5 x 81.6 cm

This landscape was painted in 1873, when Gauguin was still working as a stockbroker, and painting in his spare time. He first sent his work to public exhibitions in 1876, and in 1879 accepted Pissarros and Degas's last-minute offer to contribute to the fourth Impressionist exhibition.
In tonality and composition, it recalls landscapes by Corot, however the elongated canvas (a non-standard format) and deep perspectival recession following the lines of the fields, closely recall a landscape by Pissarro, one of a series representing the seasons which Gauguins godfather, Gustave Arosa, commissioned the previous year.

Given by the Very Rev. E. Milner-White, Dean of York, in devoted memory of his mother, Annie Booth Milner-White, 1952
PD.20-1952